It includes the famous conclusion to the oration when Pearse called the Irish nation to arms just eight months before the Easter Rising.

He said: “They think that they have pacified Ireland. They think that they have purchased half of us and intimidated the other half.

“They think that they have foreseen everything, think that they have provided against everything; but the fools, the fools, the fools! - they have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace.”

The footage has been sourced from British Pathé archives.

The short film will be shown daily at the Royal College of Physicians in Dublin from today.

Filmmaker Gerald McCarthy says it is aimed at visitors to Ireland who are looking for a succinct version of the Irish independence story.

Translations of the film’s narrative are available in German, French, Spanish and Italian.

The Irish Times reports that the film starts with footage of both O’Connell Street and St Stephen’s Green from 1897, the oldest footage ever shot in Ireland.

Along with Pearse, the movie also features Roger Casement, James Connolly, Eamonn Ceannt, Thomas Clarke and Erskine Childers.

Michael Collins also appears, smiling and joking at the wedding of General Seán Mac Eoin.